When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something ...

(KRON) — A dead and decomposing gray whale washed ashore at Black Sands Beach in Marin County on March 30. This dead whale carcass is the first to wash ashore in the Bay Area in 2025, according to The ...

A rare whale was accidentally trapped and entangled in a Thai commercial fishing net, which led to its unfortunate demise.

A minke whale carcass, first spotted in January, was found near Bold Point Park in East Providence. Due to its advanced state of decomposition and location, the whale will be left to decompose ...

Officials on Friday cleared away a dead humpback whale that washed ashore on a Los Angeles County beach ahead of the Fourth of July weekend. The whale washed ashore at Dockweiler Beach Thursday about ...

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

How does an 18-foot-long, 2,000-pound carcass just disappear? That question has puzzled some divers and photographers who regularly plunge into the waters off San Diego. It started earlier this spring ...

WASHINGTON — Officials near a Nantucket beach have a whale-sized problem. That's not surprising considering the problem is literally a whale. A dead sperm whale washed up on the shore of the ...